Lafayette man suspected of child exploitation

LAFAYETTE — Police and members of the high tech crime unit showed up at Brian Lee Port's home Wednesday morning with a search warrant, and when they left, Port was heading to jail.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children tipped police off that someone here had child pornography. Police tracked it to 1118 S. Fifth St., according to a news release published Wednesday afternoon.

Police served a search warrant there at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, and investigators found child pornography.

Police booked Port, 46, into the Tippecanoe County Jail at 11 a.m. Wednesday on four preliminary charges of child exploitation, according to police.

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